GASYRUG is a textile art house born in Tamatave, on the east coast of Madagascar. It elevates a millennia-old craft, coiled basketry, into exceptional works of art. An ancient and universal technique, passed down through generations; the very same that once adorned, in the 19th century, the walls and floors of the Queen's Palace in Antananarivo.
From this memory, a gesture is born. At the heart of every work, the dexterity of Malagasy women, that strength in the rigour and excellence of the hand. More than sixty artisans now give life to unique and exceptional wall tapestries and floor rugs. A two-metre diameter rug requires 1,200 metres of braiding and two months of work. Each woman, as she braids, also builds her independence and with her, an entire community rises.
From this gesture, an inhabited work is born. Sisal, a living fibre, becomes the medium for an intimate reflection on what endures and what connects us. The work is made to last; what it expresses, the spiral, the movement, the whole, is in perpetual motion.
Every GASYRUG work is an invitation to inhabit differently, through pieces carried by a soul and an emotion
